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Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly

Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly is the Fellow and Tutor in German at Exeter College, Oxford. She specialises in the early modern period, and is a distinguished scholar in this field, and in the field of German literature as a whole, in particular in relation to literature written by women; she currently co-directs the AHRC major research project at Oxford University on Women and Death in the German-speaking world, 1500-present.

Her father was the Professor Michael J. O'Kelly, the distinguished Professor of Archaeology and Irish Pre-History at the University of Cork, who discovered the midwinter illumination of Newgrange in 1967.